Famous Deaths In April - 15

1053  Death of Godwin, Earl of Wessex on this day in history.   

1220  On this day in history adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies   

1415  Death of Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian on this day in history.   

1472  On April - 15 leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68   

1502  On April - 15 jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies   

1605  On April - 15 boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies   

1607  On April - 15 cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78   

1610  Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 on April - 15.   

1621  On this day in history death of john Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony   

1632  On April - 15 death of george Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)   

1641  Death of Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581) on April - 15.   

1652  Death of Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church on this day in history.   

1659  On April - 15 simon Dach, German poet, dies   

1719  On this day in history johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76   

1754  Death of Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676) on this day in history.   

1756  Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29 on April - 15.   

1761  Death of Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) on this day in history.   

1764  On this day in history jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies   

1765  On this day in history michail v Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53   

1788  Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1793  On April - 15 death of ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)   

1804  Death of Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761) on April - 15.   

1811  Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1824  Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1853  Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1854  Death of Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773) on April - 15.   

1863  On April - 15 jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90   

1866  William Jackson, composer, dies at 51 on April - 15.   

1888  Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 on April - 15.   

1889  On April - 15 death of father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)   

1891  On April - 15 stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49   

1898  Death of Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader on April - 15.   

1911  Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies on April - 15.   

1912  Death of Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850) on this day in history.   

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1452  On April - 15 birth of leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary   

1469  On this day in history birth of nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs   

1489  On April - 15 birth of sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)   

1552  On this day in history birth of pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)   

1588  On this day in history birth of claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist   

1637  Valentin Molitor, composer was born on this day in history.   

1641  On this day in history birth of robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)   

1646  On April - 15 birth of king Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)